Cash-carrier



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D. 0. STOVER,

CASH CARRIER.

No. 270,261. Patented Jan. 9,1883.

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A TTORNE y JZVVENTOR UNITE STATES" PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL (J. STOVER, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS.

CASH-CAR RlER.

SPECIFICATION forming" part of Letters Patent No. 270,261, dated January 9, 1883.

' Application filed May 10, 1882. (No model.) I

To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL O. STOVER, a iesident of Freeport, in the county of Stephenson and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash- Carriers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to makeand use the same.

My invention relates to that class of cashcarriers in which cash is conveyed from the different counters in a store to the cashiers to the various counters by means of hollow balls rolling on inclined tracks, and more especiall y to the form of the rails of such track, and the means by which the cashcarrying balls on their return from the cashiers desk are dropped from the track to the counters to which they respectively belong. It is shown in the drawings hereto attached, in which- Figure 1 is a top view of the track, the dotted lines showing the sizes of the cash-carrying balls as compared with the width of the track. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section through the middle of the track, the plane of section passing through line at a, Figs. 1 and 3. Fig. 3 is an end view of track as seen from right-hand end of Fig. 1.

As will be seen from the drawings, the track consists of two parallel rails, A A, preferably of greater vertical than horizontal thickness, as this form not only affords greater rigidity for a given weight of material, but also dispenses with the necessity for retaining rails or rods above the main rails. The'distance between the rails A A is fixed, and a means of suspension for the track afiorded by arches B B, of suitable form. To the inner side of each of the rails is rigidly attached a horizontal flange, O C, a and the inner edges of these flanges form the hearings on which the cashcarrying balls roll. The inner edges of the flanges are parallel, but the distance between them increases by regular steps or offsets a a b I), being least at the cashiers desk and greatest at the terminus of the track farthest therefrom. Instead of offsets in both flanges, as shown in the drawings, the same result may be reached by making one flange-straight and increasing the amount of offset in the opposite flange. The halls used in combination with this track are of different diameters, the smallest being of such size as to roll on the sectionof track nearest the cashiers desk, but drop between the flanges at the first set-off, the sec- 0nd in size being of such diameter as to roll over the first two sections of track, but drop ball always stops at that counter on the line,

which is nearest the cashiers desk, while the next in size is carried onto the next counter, and so on. By the use of this form of track any complicated switching arrangement is dispensed with.

Of course the track which carries the balls from the various counters to the cashiers desk is of the same width throughout its length, as the balls on that track have a common destination.

I am aware that this return-track of equal width is in common use, and that halls of unequal diameter are common to various cashcarrying systems, as well as that the general system of carrying cash to and from the cashiers desk in hollow balls'rolling on inclined tracks is old, and I therefore claim none of these; but,

Having described my invention, what I claim as novel, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,-is-.-

1. In a cash-carrying system, a track consisting of two parallel or nearly parallel rails of greater vertical than horizontal thickness, provided with inner horizontal flanges, whose inner edges form the bearings of the cash-car- I tance between whose inner edges is least at one end of said track and increases by steps or 011'- sets, and is greatest at the other end thereof. 3. In a cash-carrying system, a track the distance between the beefing-edges of whose 1 balls at the successive offsets of said track, [0

- rails is least at one end, increases by regular snbstantialiyas and for the purpose described.

steps or ofisets, and is greatest at the other In testimony whereof I have signed this end, in combination with ai-series of cash-carspecification in the presenceof two subscribrying balls of such different diameters that ing witnesses.

when rolled along said track the smallest of DANIEL G. STOVER. said balls shall drop between said rails at the Witnesses: first of said ofl'sets, the second in size at the U. M. MAYER,

second offset, and the successively-increasing J. F. KLECKNER. 

